The paper analyses the sharp devergence in the nineties between capital formation in the main euro-area countries, on … and service sectors on capital stock, investment and value added. Our econometric estimates of an investment fonction … that links the growth of capital stock to value added for both the euro-area countries and the Anglo-Saxon countries. This …

institutions relative to the new rules on capital and liquidity. The exercise paints a picture of broad compliance with the … prudential targets, although some elements warrant greater attention. On the one hand, although the banks� capital endowment is …

regulatory capital and risk-weighted assets and assessing their positioning with respect to future leverage and liquidity … June 2012, show that capital and liquidity positions relatively to the Basel 3 targets have improved considerably over the … interpreted as a forecast of capital and liquidity needs as they do not incorporate any assumption about future balance …

In 2007 the new framework for capital adequacy of banks (Basel 2), defined in 2004 by the Basel Committee for Banking … of the Italian banking system. For large internationally active intermediaries the capital requirements, calculated with … the advanced methodologies, decrease with respect to the current regime; for medium-sized banks the capital requirements …

A remarkable feature of short-term business finance is the widespread use of trade credit as collateral in bank … information associated with this form of collateral. The model shows that the share of receivables pledged as collateral is larger …

of data on banks’ balance sheets, central banks and money market funds; on interest rates on deposits and loans; on non …